#prison

A prisoner in the Inquisition is never allowed to see the face of his accuser, or of the witnesses against him, but every method is taken by threats and tortures, to oblige him to accuse himself, and by that means corroborate their evidence. ↗

— John Foxe

#accuser #against #allowed #every #evidence

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status. ↗

— Catharine MacKinnon

#defined #definition #done #group #means

In my country we go to prison first and then become President. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#country #first #go #president #prison

Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#contracts #enter #free #free men #freedom

Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#contracts #enter #free #free men #into

Otherwise, to be a movie star, it's a lot of compromise and also a lot of headaches. You can't do what you want. You become a prisoner of your fame. This happened to me in France and I don't want it. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#become #compromise #fame #france #happened

An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#etc #himself #must #never #prisoner

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair. ↗

— Brian May

#danger #flick #hair #i #magazines

I went to prison, I paid my bill. ↗

— George Michael

#i #paid #prison #went

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over. ↗

— Henry Miller

#crime #his #lives #over #prisoner